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. >> and same with obama. the one thing that came out of this campaign is a concrete promise was this part of the tax package. >> jonathan capehart, we were saying throughout the entire campaign, this was a seinfeld campaign. but a campaign about nothing. except -- and we always have the caveat -- mitt romney said he was going to cut taxes even if he couldn't pay for him, and the president said he was going to raise taxes on the rich. the president could not have been more clear about that. >> right. right. that was not an unknown. and people went into the voting booth, voted for the president, and in exit polls, they said overwhelmingly that they favored what the president was going -- or now is going to try to do. you know, to add on to something that john heilemann said in terms of speaker boehner now trying to exert more control over his raucous caucus there in the house, the other thing that's going to happen is that the president is basically going to refuse to be held hostage in washington trying to neg
. >> and same with obama. the one thing that came out of this campaign is a concrete promise was this part of the tax package. >> jonathan capehart, we were saying throughout the entire campaign, this was a seinfeld campaign. but a campaign about nothing. except -- and we always have the caveat -- mitt romney said he was going to cut taxes even if he couldn't pay for him, and the president said he was going to raise taxes on the rich. the president could not have been more clear...
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which obama will we see? >> i think the president may have a democratic congress or a republican congress, but i think addressing the jobs crisis, dealing with afghanistan, trying to figure out how to get reelected, all those things, trying to figure out how to get reelected and be better at dealing with those things in a second campaign is a real, real challenge. >> still ahead, we're going to talk march madness with dick vitale. and up next, david gregory and chuck todd join us to break down the results from last night. you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. wanna know the difference between a trader and an elite trader? it's this... the etrade pro platform. fast. beautiful. totally customizable. finds top performing stocks -- in three clicks. quickly scans the market for new trading ideas. it can even match options strategies to your goals and lets you see the potential risk and reward. and, it also comes with a dedicated elite service team. got it? get it. good. introducing new etrade pro elit
which obama will we see? >> i think the president may have a democratic congress or a republican congress, but i think addressing the jobs crisis, dealing with afghanistan, trying to figure out how to get reelected, all those things, trying to figure out how to get reelected and be better at dealing with those things in a second campaign is a real, real challenge. >> still ahead, we're going to talk march madness with dick vitale. and up next, david gregory and chuck todd join us to...
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michelle obama. pretty funny. >> she was great. >> that's the two-year anniversary of let's move, an important program for our country. >>> tina brown, "the war on christians." >> there's been a 309% increase on attacks on christians in africa, middle east, in egypt, it's really incredible. those 350 churches burned down in 2011 in nigeria. it's really, you know, under the radar and it's getting so much traction right now. >>> up next, carl bernstein joins the table. tina, thank you. also rick santorum straight ahead on "morning joe." gomery a abigail higgins had... ...a tree that bore the most rare and magical fruit. which provided for their every financial need. and then, in one blinding blink of an eye, their tree had given its last. but with their raymond james financial advisor, they had prepared for even the unthinkable. and they danced. see what a raymond james advisor can do for you. the new spark card from capital one. spark miles gives me the most rewards of any small business credit card.
michelle obama. pretty funny. >> she was great. >> that's the two-year anniversary of let's move, an important program for our country. >>> tina brown, "the war on christians." >> there's been a 309% increase on attacks on christians in africa, middle east, in egypt, it's really incredible. those 350 churches burned down in 2011 in nigeria. it's really, you know, under the radar and it's getting so much traction right now. >>> up next, carl...
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at some point, the president either president obama or president obama romney are going to have to reach out. they are going to have to reach out. because guess what? even if there are 49 democrats and 51 republicans caucusing, democrats can stop everything. absolutely everything. because of the senate rules. at some point, whoever wins is going to look in the mirror and realize they are going to have to grow up. and guess what? jon meacham, if it's a republican president, they are going to look at what happened to barack obama the past four years, just as republicans look at what happened to george bush the last eight years and democrats look at what happened to bill clinton for the eight years. at some point we fall off the cliff if somebody doesn't get elected and grow up. and of course i'll let everybody yell and scream that barack obama was the most bipartisan president since george washington, if that helps them sleep at night, fine. neither side has bathed themselves in glory. >> that's certainly true. i think there's a good case to be made that one of the things governor leavitt
at some point, the president either president obama or president obama romney are going to have to reach out. they are going to have to reach out. because guess what? even if there are 49 democrats and 51 republicans caucusing, democrats can stop everything. absolutely everything. because of the senate rules. at some point, whoever wins is going to look in the mirror and realize they are going to have to grow up. and guess what? jon meacham, if it's a republican president, they are going to...
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helpful to the obama administration. signed on to obama care. what happened with two of the biggest corporations in the country. too broad of a stroke. we're against regulations when, in fact, guys like me got elected because small business own eers would take me into the office and say look at the osha forms. look at all these other forms i have. and so you sit there and you paint a broad brush and you're giving breaks to the big banks on wall street to get corporate welfare and -- >> that's always the tension. the tension is individual people understand how awful it can be to be yoekd to regulations of no help to a business that grosses a million dollars a year and has five employees whereas those regulations are necessary to manage the conduct of a company with 100,000 employees that actually, you know, dumps polluted water. but they're laid out across american business and they don't have an equal impact. they impact those who can least afford to handle them and that's why regulation is a problem. it's less of a problem for big business just
helpful to the obama administration. signed on to obama care. what happened with two of the biggest corporations in the country. too broad of a stroke. we're against regulations when, in fact, guys like me got elected because small business own eers would take me into the office and say look at the osha forms. look at all these other forms i have. and so you sit there and you paint a broad brush and you're giving breaks to the big banks on wall street to get corporate welfare and -- >>...
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constitution, and i do not, but if you believe as barack obama and progressives who support barack obama and gay barack obama supporters who give him campaign money, believe that gay marriage is specifically protected by the united states constitution, then you cannot assign it to governors in north carolina and alabama and north dakota. that is immoral. if i believe something is a civil right, i cannot say, you know, i'm just going to pass this off. if i'm president of the united states. do you understand that? >> i do understand it. but i also understand that the president uses the bully pulpit to try to influence the conversation has some futility -- >> you think it's a step forward? >> well, it's a step forward on this issue, a step in a different direction for this issue. and secondly, if your ultimate goal is to make it a federal issue, there is a pragmatic approach to making that happen. >> jon, you believe this is a burkian move by barack obama, that you take a step, politics is the art of the possible. >> absolutely. and i think in a classic anglican way, i'm right between you a
constitution, and i do not, but if you believe as barack obama and progressives who support barack obama and gay barack obama supporters who give him campaign money, believe that gay marriage is specifically protected by the united states constitution, then you cannot assign it to governors in north carolina and alabama and north dakota. that is immoral. if i believe something is a civil right, i cannot say, you know, i'm just going to pass this off. if i'm president of the united states. do...
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obama understands that. i think the problem is he has had difficulties, in part because of the domestic problems, in part because he got stonewalled to move forward with this foreign policy. i certainly have no hesitation in saying i have mover confidence in his judgment about the world than anything i have heard so far from any of the officially announced republican presidential candidates. >> well i just was going to say on iran, which is the issue that's got us all on fire, there's something interesting in dr. brzezinski's book, you think we can contain a nuclear iran, but then and you have passage when you say, maybe what might be needed, if this knock lard-armed iran is collective disarmament, a group of nations collectively acting to take away those nuclear weapons. i found that an interesting idea. >> well, what i mean by that is exactly what you said, but the motive for it is that i don't want the understand either stampeded into a war with iran that's, say, by an israeli attack which the iranians re
obama understands that. i think the problem is he has had difficulties, in part because of the domestic problems, in part because he got stonewalled to move forward with this foreign policy. i certainly have no hesitation in saying i have mover confidence in his judgment about the world than anything i have heard so far from any of the officially announced republican presidential candidates. >> well i just was going to say on iran, which is the issue that's got us all on fire, there's...
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timid won't create jobs and timid certainly won't defeat barack obama. newt gingrich's bold leadership balanced the budget, reformed welfare, helped create millions of new jobs. the gingrich jobs plan, a powerful plan for growing our economy and creating jobs. rebuilding the america we love with bold conservative leadership. >> i'm newt gingrich, and i approve this message. >> certainly worked against him in iowa. did you -- when you were campaigning, was this a tactic you considered? or did you stay positive all the way through? >> i stayed positive through the primary, and nobody thought i was going to win, so i didn't get negative ads. the final week they figured out i was coming from nowhere to win and then a barrage of negative ads went against me outrageous and kept going day in and day out. and everyone said stay positive, joe, stay positive. and i did, but i saw my numbers slipping, slipping. i still won by eight points in the primary. but after that, i said i'm going to stay positive until you launch your first negative attack against me and the
timid won't create jobs and timid certainly won't defeat barack obama. newt gingrich's bold leadership balanced the budget, reformed welfare, helped create millions of new jobs. the gingrich jobs plan, a powerful plan for growing our economy and creating jobs. rebuilding the america we love with bold conservative leadership. >> i'm newt gingrich, and i approve this message. >> certainly worked against him in iowa. did you -- when you were campaigning, was this a tactic you...
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obama doubles down. he not only does he adopt bush and cheney's guidelines and their approach to the war on terror, he increases the drone attacks. so history whether bush and obama supporters are going to like to read this or not are going to see these two different presidents joined at the shoulders and credit them both for wiping out al qaeda. >> and what happened is these other guys cherry pick history. they say the americans left iran or lebanon, so it's a self-serving bit of history and take those conclusions that the americans have no legs, we're weak. and in the top-heavy systems, no one has the guts to walk into the room of a saddam hussein and say, boss, you're wrong, you're wrong. these americans are actually -- >> yeah. >> the whole message, the whole kill the messenger, shoot the messenger, in places -- that's literal. that's where they invented it. >>> well, turning from foreign policy to politico now, chief correspondent for politico mike allen here with the morning playbook. we start with
obama doubles down. he not only does he adopt bush and cheney's guidelines and their approach to the war on terror, he increases the drone attacks. so history whether bush and obama supporters are going to like to read this or not are going to see these two different presidents joined at the shoulders and credit them both for wiping out al qaeda. >> and what happened is these other guys cherry pick history. they say the americans left iran or lebanon, so it's a self-serving bit of history...
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it was hillary and obama, i don't think -- it was almost good for the party, especially for obama because he was more and more exposed and people liked what they saw. but generally speaking long drawn out primary fights are not a great thing, especially when it was mean-spirited, this one. i've never seen -- i thought the democrats were bad, i have no to complain about when i ran in iowa after i see what's going on in this republican primary. i can't believe it. >> and mike, we're going to go through, i think, more stages in this republican nomination fight. right now you've got santorum on top and the anti-mitt faction. we heard that newt's money man out of las vegas is going to start writing checks to take down santorum. so newt's going to be in a stronger position. this -- i think this journey's going to continue all the way to tampa. and that's just not good for the eventual republican nominee, not good for the republican brand, not good for republican senatorial candidates, not good for anyone in the party. >> not to run it into the ground, but to run it into the ground -- >> let's r
it was hillary and obama, i don't think -- it was almost good for the party, especially for obama because he was more and more exposed and people liked what they saw. but generally speaking long drawn out primary fights are not a great thing, especially when it was mean-spirited, this one. i've never seen -- i thought the democrats were bad, i have no to complain about when i ran in iowa after i see what's going on in this republican primary. i can't believe it. >> and mike, we're going...
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president obama did. and now with this really horrible -- not just a mistake, but it was adom inable what he did the other day. it was a bad thing. he ratchets down a bit more, and in a race where there's so few undecideds, he has to worry about the race essentially being locked in place. he has to worry about having enough time and enough persuadable voters out there to regain the ground that he's lost over the last couple weeks. >> craig shirley, you talked about mitt romney burning daylight. what can he do at this point? is it a speech? is it just the debates? is there enough time? how does he get someone like you or even eugene robinson who may not be actually supporting mitt romney to feel like there's a real race here? >> well, yeah, mika, that's a great point. what he's got to do is pivot back to an issue that's a strong point. we know about the discord in the middle east. we know what he said about it. what he's got to do is jump beyond that and say, look, this is why we need energy independence i
president obama did. and now with this really horrible -- not just a mistake, but it was adom inable what he did the other day. it was a bad thing. he ratchets down a bit more, and in a race where there's so few undecideds, he has to worry about the race essentially being locked in place. he has to worry about having enough time and enough persuadable voters out there to regain the ground that he's lost over the last couple weeks. >> craig shirley, you talked about mitt romney burning...
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. >> they're on president obama's job performance in the white house. 44% now approve of president obama's overall job in office. 46 % sdis approve. president obama's favoribility 36%, 48% view him as unfavorable. >> jim vandehei, favoribility, that is stunning for a sitting president running for re-election. almost one in three americans approve of the job he's doing. one in three. >> it's lower than any other poll we've seen. if that's true and it's not a glitch he loses. >> you can't win with 36% favorable ratings as an incumbent. >> now you know why they went on the offensive. clearly why they decided they had to characterize and characterize -- >> got to destroy mitt romney. so the president's upside down, what, 13 points, between his favorable and unfavorable. mitt romney is also upside down in favoribility. >> his ratings four points lower than the president's in this poll. 32% favorable few of the former massachusetts governor as favorable, 36% unfavorable. >> of course, jim, there you only have the 4 percentage point difference between favorable and unfavorable because americans a
. >> they're on president obama's job performance in the white house. 44% now approve of president obama's overall job in office. 46 % sdis approve. president obama's favoribility 36%, 48% view him as unfavorable. >> jim vandehei, favoribility, that is stunning for a sitting president running for re-election. almost one in three americans approve of the job he's doing. one in three. >> it's lower than any other poll we've seen. if that's true and it's not a glitch he loses....
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vote for barack obama? he had so many chances during the campaign to carve out his own identity, which i think is closer to the real mitt romney. t events here in the city. he talked about his roles in the city. veryeducational. very educational show with bria showed that he's a policy guy, cared about issues as the governor dug into m. th mitmnoeot get very much attention and he doesn't put it on display very often. and it's now -- t thing he has to become is a fighter. he has to have guys like joe scarborough look at him ery e rt country, and r fighting to turn the country around. i don't see that but if he doesn't see that. em's going to be very hard to keep the party behind him. >> what's coming up next,mika? >> coming up, from theuclear tension in iran to thearn syria, can the u.n. security council come up with any solution? >>> "guys with kids" co-cated by jmyfallon. we'll talk with one o t st first, bill karins with a check of the weather. bill. >> good morning, mika and everybody el. around the coun
vote for barack obama? he had so many chances during the campaign to carve out his own identity, which i think is closer to the real mitt romney. t events here in the city. he talked about his roles in the city. veryeducational. very educational show with bria showed that he's a policy guy, cared about issues as the governor dug into m. th mitmnoeot get very much attention and he doesn't put it on display very often. and it's now -- t thing he has to become is a fighter. he has to have guys...
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this is very much an obama/speaker boehner/house negotiation but also because the president has a lot more political capital this time. last time the democrats were coming off the 2010 midterms. this time the president is made of political capital. they say that vice president biden will be a part of selling whatever deal comes together, but he's been less visible in crafting it. >> let me ask, mike, are you surprised by the latest nbc news/"wall street journal" poll that shows the american public splitting blame on this debt deal possibly going down? >> i can tell you republicans have felt this for a while. i've felt the spine of republicans stiffen over the last couple weeks. had they started this -- and you and i talked about this -- they were ready to cave. the leaders knew that it was just a matter of when and how. and as time went by, partly because of what they saw as overreach by white house negotiations, republicans started to say, you know, maybe there is some up side for us in this. and so that's why i think this has been such a slow process. and that's partly because peopl
this is very much an obama/speaker boehner/house negotiation but also because the president has a lot more political capital this time. last time the democrats were coming off the 2010 midterms. this time the president is made of political capital. they say that vice president biden will be a part of selling whatever deal comes together, but he's been less visible in crafting it. >> let me ask, mike, are you surprised by the latest nbc news/"wall street journal" poll that shows...
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i think obama has the bigger problem. he has the worst record of any president since the great depression. second, bureaucratic investment has been a disaster. we had one solar company that went belly up for $2.1 billion and we have solyndra at $185 million. obama has no model of effective job creation as compared to private capital and this is why it will fall flat on his face, plus i was very careful, i didn't go after private equity. you heard the president just now. he's going after all private equity in a way which explains why you had senator warner and the governor of massachusetts who is one of his closest allies, senator feinstien and cory booker on this show. there were 15 or 20 democrats who say this is an inaccurate and wrong approach for the president to be taking. >> if the chief qualification is i'm mitt romney, i worked in private enterprise and therefore that experience is what makes me a job creator when that's not at the core of private equity, that's their not chief function. >> let me go a step furthe
i think obama has the bigger problem. he has the worst record of any president since the great depression. second, bureaucratic investment has been a disaster. we had one solar company that went belly up for $2.1 billion and we have solyndra at $185 million. obama has no model of effective job creation as compared to private capital and this is why it will fall flat on his face, plus i was very careful, i didn't go after private equity. you heard the president just now. he's going after all...
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in that case obama was the ceo. they did another thing, they took a page from the advertising brand loyalty program, basically they stayed very focused on basically their buyers from the previous election, the voters that voted for obama and tracked them over the next four years as far as how their tastes were changing, wrb they were going, what was happening. the combination of using -- not just being in social media but using social media plus stand with their brand loyal consumers, brand loyalty program, that combination was effective. >> i talked to a guy that runs a very large global advertising firm last week. he said, you know, the most surprising thing to me is, that what the obama campaign did that everybody's calling revolutionary, is what we've been doing at advertising, what big corporations have been doing for years. >> yeah. it is revolutionary that the obama team adopted that, but it's not like they made up new technology. >> no. what's interesting -- >> just to tap into politics. >> our agency got hi
in that case obama was the ceo. they did another thing, they took a page from the advertising brand loyalty program, basically they stayed very focused on basically their buyers from the previous election, the voters that voted for obama and tracked them over the next four years as far as how their tastes were changing, wrb they were going, what was happening. the combination of using -- not just being in social media but using social media plus stand with their brand loyal consumers, brand...
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i've got to say, though, on this point, barack obama did not get reelected because of obama care. he did not get reelected because of the stimulus plan. i mean, these are things he didn't even mention in his nominating speech in charlotte. >> they are -- >> it was republican stupidity as much as anything, right? >> republican stupidity played the greater role. i agree. but -- but republicans' stupidity, you know, on some issues, on immigration, on other issues. it was a combination of the two. i'm not arguing with you about americans' ideological suspicion of too much government and that's -- the republican party's got a lot to work with if it can stop being stupid. >> hey, gene? >> yeah? >> that is a very big if. >> they can do it. it would be for our country. miles? >> we've got to admit the earth's older than 6,000 years old. >> yeah. >> having trouble doing that right now. >> go ahead, miles. >> i think the issue that mika brought up is a very important one. it's terrible for america what this whole issue -- it's terrible for america that are very intelligent, well-educated, h
i've got to say, though, on this point, barack obama did not get reelected because of obama care. he did not get reelected because of the stimulus plan. i mean, these are things he didn't even mention in his nominating speech in charlotte. >> they are -- >> it was republican stupidity as much as anything, right? >> republican stupidity played the greater role. i agree. but -- but republicans' stupidity, you know, on some issues, on immigration, on other issues. it was a...
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they all would have accused obama of selling out. and it would not have been a case lacking -- i mean, the boehner case, it was a real genuine compromise. and the white house really thought that's what it was. the second thing, what john boehner has to do is start doing on january 4th because january 3rd is when he is re-elected as speaker. i think there may be a fear that some of those right. wing members of his caucus might be so furious that any deal he cuts that they wouldn't vote for him. >> what i'm told may end up happening, you've got a number of problems for instance on the senate side on friday, there is the funeral for danny inouye tomorrow. that's going to take up a lot. there's the viewing today. you've got the benghazi hearings. time is running out on the calendar. so what i'm hearing is, go home for christmas and come back the day after, come back on the 26th. >> the plan b would, as a diversion, make sense if they were still talking. but they're not talking. and according to senior white house officials, they haven't
they all would have accused obama of selling out. and it would not have been a case lacking -- i mean, the boehner case, it was a real genuine compromise. and the white house really thought that's what it was. the second thing, what john boehner has to do is start doing on january 4th because january 3rd is when he is re-elected as speaker. i think there may be a fear that some of those right. wing members of his caucus might be so furious that any deal he cuts that they wouldn't vote for him....
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you don't do this with president obama. in fact, with president obama what you did was you went out and defended him against someone who he sat in a church for for 20 years and defended him that, oh, he can't possibly believe what he listened to for 20 years. this is a double standard, this is what you're pulling off, and i'm going to call you on it. >> that was rick santorum a few minutes ago talking to charlie rose on cbs saying this is a gotcha question and should not be held responsible for one of his benefactors says on television. >> his problem is that he has now a public association with a very flakey seeming guy. and it just -- it gives this overall sensation that santorum thinking comes from a flakey spot. especially on contraception. this is a guy who has said he believes that states should be allowed to outlaw contraception if they want to. that is the santorum position. any discussion of contraception is bad for santorum. and so foster freiss doesn't help. >> donny, should a candidate be held responsible for wh
you don't do this with president obama. in fact, with president obama what you did was you went out and defended him against someone who he sat in a church for for 20 years and defended him that, oh, he can't possibly believe what he listened to for 20 years. this is a double standard, this is what you're pulling off, and i'm going to call you on it. >> that was rick santorum a few minutes ago talking to charlie rose on cbs saying this is a gotcha question and should not be held...